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  Mauritania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its coast faces the Atlantic Ocean on the west, with Senegal on the south-west, Mali on the east and south-east, Algeria on the north-east, with the Moroccan-annexed territory of Western Sahara on the north-west.
From the 3rd to 7th centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke.
Mauritania and Madagascar are the only two countries in the world not to use decimal-based currency.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritania   (1692 words)

  
 Map Zones : Mauritania Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The process of compelling nomads to settle that was begun by the colonial government earlier in the twentieth century was accelerated by the severe drought that began in the mid-1960s.
Mauritania's participation in the war began with its claim to and occupation of a southern province in the Western Sahara, an action designed to prevent Morocco from occupying the entire territory.
Mauritania, Islamic Republic of, republic, north-western Africa, bordered on the north by Western Sahara and Algeria, on the east by Mali, on the south by Mali and Senegal, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
kids.mapzones.com /world/mauritania   (4446 words)

  
 An MBendi Profile: Mauritania - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mauritania is an independent republic which lies mainly in the Sahara Desert belt on the on the bulge of Africa and forms part of the West African Region.
Mauritania has implemented an impressive array of structural reforms, the most important of which are: the unification of the VAT rates and elimination of exemptions (except where they protect the poor); strengthening public expenditure management; stream-lining the procurement code and revising the investment code to enhance its transparency; and completing an ambitious privatisation programme.
In ten years Mauritania has been transformed from a country with a predominantly nomadic population (2.8 million in 2002), limited economic base and poor social indicators to one that is highly urbanized, market-driven.
mbendi.co.za /cymucy.htm   (538 words)

  
 Communications in Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mauritania News - Topix.net News on Mauritania continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Scenes From Mauritania Series of picture on Mauritania from American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage.
Mauritania Breve información, mapa y fotografías del país.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Communications_in_Mauritania.html   (276 words)

  
 Mauritania - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a country in northwest Africa.
Its coast faces the Atlantic Ocean, between Western Sahara on the north and Senegal on the south.
Mauritania and Madagascar are the only countries not to use a decimal currency.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Mauritania   (119 words)

  
 History of Mauritania
A schism developed between those who consider Mauritania to be an Arab country (mainly Moors) and those who seek a dominant role for the Sub-Saharan peoples.
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory.
A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council headed by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, which declared it would remain in power for up to two years while it created conditions for genuine democratic institutions.
infotut.com /geography/Mauritania   (545 words)

  
 Politics of Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In October 2001 Mauritania held its third legislative and fifth elections since the opening of multiparty politics the 1991 constitution.
Politics in Mauritania have always been heavily by personalities with any leader's ability to political power dependent upon control over resources; ability or integrity; and tribal ethnic family personal considerations.
Under this system Mauritania is divided 13 regions (wilaya) including the capital district Nouakchott.
www.freeglossary.com /Mauritania/Government   (707 words)

  
 Mauritania
Mauritania was first inhabited by fls and Berbers, and it was a center for the Berber Almoravid movement in the 11th century, which sought to spread Islam through western Africa.
Mauritania became an independent nation on Nov. 28, 1960, and was admitted to the United Nations in 1961 over the strenuous opposition of Morocco, which claimed the territory.
Mauritania: Economy - Economy Mauritania's economy is sharply divided between a traditional agricultural sector and a...
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 Serebella Contents Common discus---Communications in Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-98190-98674-Common_discus-Communications_in_Mauritania.html   (356 words)

  
 Mauritania
Mauritania is a highly centralized Islamic republic dominated by a strong presidency.
The High Islamic Council of Mauritania, the Islamic Scholar Association, and the National Forum for Women's Rights launched a campaign that explained the serious health risks of FGM and emphasized that FGM was not a religious requirement.
There were reports that some former slaves in some sedentary communities continued to work for their former masters or others without remuneration to retain access to land they traditionally farmed.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/29677.htm   (8453 words)

  
 REDRESS - Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
Communication 16/88 concerns the arrest of students, workers and pupils and their detention without trial (some for several months), during which they were tortured and maltreated.
Communication 18/88 concerns the detention and torture of the applicant for more than seven years without charge or trial, the absence of food for long periods, the blocking of his bank account, and the use of his money without his permission.
Given the release of the individual on whose behalf the communication was brought, the likelihood is that the complainant considers the case satisfactorily resolved.
www.redress.org /african_mechanisms_summaries.html   (6670 words)

  
 Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Two new political parties in Mauritania were born on Sunday after they had submitted their applications and won a temporary recognition from the ministry of...
Nouakchott, Mauritania, 10/21 - Mauritania`s minister of justice, Mahfoudh Ould Bettah, on Thursday called on all parties to contribute towards the restoration...
Mauritania denied a license for a new political party under the claim that the party is Islamic, and contravenes the law which prevent religion-based political...
www.wikiverse.org /mauritania   (199 words)

  
 Mauritania News
Mauritania's post-coup government has lifted a five-year ban on broadcasting from Nouakchott by France's state-run Radio France Internationale, the prime minister's press advisor said Saturday.
Mauritania's new military rulers declared a general amnesty for political prisoners yesterday, freeing, among others, about 50 Islamists accused of links to al Qaeda and coup plotters condemned by the country's...
Mauritania's ousted leader Maaouiya Ould Taya flew out of Gambia on Sunday, where he has been for nearly two weeks, headed for Qatar, an AFP journalist witnessed.
www.topix.net /world/mauritania   (1110 words)

  
 Mauritania - Slider
The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War (1644–74) was the unsuccessful final effort to repel the Yemeni Maqil Arab invaders led by the Beni Hassan tribe.
After several military losses to freedom-fighters Polisario, Mauritania retreated in 1979, and their claims were taken by Morocco.
Main article: Economy of Mauritania Mauritania and Madagascar are the only countries not to use a decimal currency.
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 Mauritania
The Committee of Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Mauritania was concerned with the plight of the 1989 expellees.
For example, in some groups, individuals of a higher caste who sought to marry someone of a lower caste could be barred by their families or by the community, and in Soninke communities members of the slave caste could not be buried in the same cemetery as other castes.
SOS-Esclaves particularly was active in bringing to public attention cases in which it found the rights of former slaves to have been abridged and in assisting former slaves in their difficulties with former masters.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18215.htm   (9550 words)

  
 Mauritania
Mauritania’s initial and second through fourth periodic reports were due 12 January 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996 respectively.
The one outstanding case reportedly occurred in a village in southern Mauritania in 1990, where a 21-year-old man was taken away by members of the National Guard.
The Special Rapporteur’s interim report to the General Assembly notes that communications were sent to the government concerning violations of religious freedom against all religious groups and communities except for the official, state or predominant religion (i.e., non-Muslims).
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1997/vol2/mauritania.htm   (334 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Politics - Mauritania wants fugitives in plot handed over
Mauritania, in northwest Africa, wanted Libya and Burkina Faso to adopt a clear position guaranteeing that Mauritani's stable existence, he told AFP.
Already tense relations between Mauritania and Libya have been further jarred by new accusations that Tripoli was behind a foiled plot to overthrow Mauritania's President Maaouiya Ould Taya on Aug. 9.
The communications minister claimed Burkina Faso was the "armed wing of Libya in the (West African) region, as both Togo and Ivory Coast testify."
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=7860   (527 words)

  
 Mauritania Country Guide - General Information - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Mauritania is bordered by Algeria, Mali, Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) and Senegal.
Mauritania consists mainly of the vast Saharan plain of sand and scrub.
Most of this area is a sea of sand dunes, but in places the land rises to rocky plateaux with deep ravines leaving isolated peaks.
www.worldtravelguide.net /data/mrt/mrt.asp   (263 words)

  
 Mauritania: Wave of arrests of political opponents and imams.
Mauritania: Wave of arrests of political opponents and imams.
Mauritania: Invitation to a press conference on the launch of a report on slavery
Mauritania: 2005 UN Commission on Human Rights: Recommendations to the government of Mauritania on the occasion of its election on the Bureau of the Commission on Human Rights
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/mauritania/document.do?id=3770EA534D468F7F80256D2600527BA1   (1051 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Mauritania
Detailed handbook describing the history of Mauritania and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
Basic reference information about Mauritania, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
bubl.ac.uk /link/m/mauritania.htm   (388 words)

  
 Mauritania: coupe mastermind arrested
The government of Nouakchott announced the detention of the former officer Saleh Weld Hanineh who is considered the mastermind of the two coupe attempts carried out in Mauritania in June 2003 and September this year.
The Mauritania minister of communications, Mahmoud Weld Abdi, said that Weld Hanineh who was removed from the army in 2000 was detained by members of the special units of the Mauritanian army in Rosso near the borders with Senegal.
Mauritania pins its special problems on others." Mauritania had accused Libya and Burkina Faso of financing the organizers of the coupe and providing them with weapons.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/041011/2004101112.html   (269 words)

  
 Communications Of Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Encyclopedia: Communications in Mauritania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
Intelsat is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider.
Country code (Top level domain):.mr.mr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mauritania.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Communications-in-Mauritania   (211 words)

  
 FREE In-depth report - Economy - Mauritania
After government began participating in 1979, fishing industry grew rapidly and by 1983 accounted for 54 percent of foreign exchange and approximately 10 percent of GDP.
In 1986 Mauritania produced about one-third of its grain needs, up from 3 to 8 percent during 1983-85 drought years.
Balance of Payments: By 1985 external public debt nearly 250 percent of GDP, making Mauritania one of most deeply indebted nations in world.
www.exploitz.com /Mauritania-Economy-cg.php   (447 words)

  
 FREE In-depth report - Imports - Mauritania
The structure of Mauritania's imports since independence has reflected the country's growing dependence on foreign food, merchandise, and energy products.
Between 1973 and 1986, commercial imports of grains and other foodstuffs, such as sugar and tea, averaged about 31 percent of all domestically financed imports.
Ironically, in the periods of the worst drought, commercial food imports fell as Mauritania received free food assistance from the United States and Western Europe.
www.exploitz.com /Mauritania-Imports-cg.php   (283 words)

  
 Mauritania : ISO 3166-1:MR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mauritania : ISO 3166-1:MR printable version : ISO_3166-1:MR.html.txt
It has an important coast facing the Atlantic Ocean, between Morocco on the north and Senegal on the south.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Mauritania : ISO 3166-1:MR.
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 Mauritania releases failed coup leaders -DAWN - International; 30 August, 2004
Nor was anything known about the date of those remaining in detention under investigation by a military committee of enquiry.
Colonel Sidi Ould Riha, commander of Mauritania's national gendarmerie, has accused another African state Burkina Faso, together with Libya, of supporting the coup plotter.
Hamoud Ould Abdi, communications minister of Mauritania on Saturday called on Libya and another African state Burkina Faso to hand over suspects he claimed both countries were still backing following a failed coup in Mauritania.
www.dawn.com /2004/08/30/int13.htm   (179 words)

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